MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti)  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called the acting authorities in Ukraine illegitimate, but said a military intervention in Russias western neighbor would be a last resort.

The remarks were the first public comments from Putin on the crisis in Ukraine since protesters in the capital, Kiev, swept to power last month.

Putin said Ukraines new government had no legal authority, and he urged new elections as soon as possible.

The parliament is partially legitimate, but all the rest is not. The acting president does not have any legitimacy, Putin told reporters.

While he denounced the Kiev authorities, Putin said Russia was not planning any imminent military action. The use of troops is a last resort, he said. There is no necessity to do it at the moment, though that option is on the table.

Any intervention would be purely humanitarian in nature, Putin said.

If we take a decision to deploy troops then it will only be for the peoples protection, he said. Our militaries are brothers in arms, friends. I am sure that Ukrainian and Russian soldiers will be on the same side of the barricade.

Troops under apparent Russian command, many of them traveling in military trucks and armored personnel carriers, have deployed widely around Crimea, as attested by numerous eyewitness accounts from reporters on the ground.

The troops have seized key strategic points across the peninsula, provoking a tense standoff with the Ukrainian military. Officials in Kiev and other capitals across the world have described the actions as an invasion.

Russias upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, approved on Saturday a request by Putin for the deployment of troops inside Ukraine.

While Putin said he did not agree with the methods of the protesters who overthrew Ukrainian President Viktor......

Putin is exactly right. Yanukovych was elected president in an election which western observers considered to be free and fair and he was ousted by a rabble whose members are the philosophical fellow travelers of the "Occupy" movement in this country. When camped in Kiev we call them "freedom fighters". When camped in Battery Park, NY we call them "anarchists".

Order needs to be restored in Ukraine followed by elections. The revolutionaries can make their point at the ballot box.

Russia does not consider the Kiev regime legitimate. A regime not elected by its voters is not a democratic regime by any stretch of the word. Russia has a sound case here and its recent actions are based on that case.

That said, a legal wrong cannot be cured by another legal wrong as you know. Russia’s humanitarian intervention in Crimea calmed a dangerous situation. Instead of being thanked for it in the West, the West calls for threats and sanctions against Russia for assisting in trying to prevent the chaos in Ukraine from spreading. No government in the world could be indifferent in the face of such danger.

That said - force resulting in bloodshed is unthinkable. It must not be allowed to materialize. Every one should work for a political solution to normalize the situation in Ukraine. This is the time for cooler heads to prevail in the West as well as in Russia.

Weren't veterans arrested in DC just for the "crime" of trying to enter THEIR monument grounds during the shutdown? Weren't people arrested for the crime of attempting to take hikes in national forests?

Yet we applaud rabble creating walls of burning tires in Kiev? We say their actions were okay to oust a government? We applaud AlQuaida chaos in Syria?

These ousters of governments instead of improving the election process are a dircetion that will be difficult to reverse. It's not good for what's left of civilization.

Following the logic the US has been promoting globally, those veterans in DC should've been allowed to use their military skills and demand that our President step down.

Did anybody actually think that Vladimir Putin was going to sit there and watch George Soros, Monsanto, and the US state dept. just walk off with the Ukraine?? I mean, has five years of Bork Obunga really dumbed us down that much??

The sad thing is that, from what little I've been able to stand to listen to on the radio, conservative pundits appear mainly to be clueless and out to lunch on this topic. That certainly is the case with Sean Hannity.

Did anybody actually think that Vladimir Putin was going to sit there and watch George Soros, Monsanto, and the US state dept. just walk off with the Ukraine??

If George Soros, McCain, and Obongo had called the protestors "right wing extremists", did not give them billions of dollars, and basically treated them like Waco Branch Davidians I would be 100% behind them. As it stands now Putin can do his worst for all I care.

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posted on 03/04/2014 7:21:09 AM PST
by Count of Monte Fisto
(The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)

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